Re: [Valgrind-users] Memcheck with Jikes RVM

[Eliot M. <mo...@cs...>]

On 7/8/2014 2:04 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 03:49 -0400, Karl Cronburg wrote:

I can confirm that Jikes RVM does it own special allocation
of stacks, which might be involved here.

I am wondering why anyone would think a tool like memcheck
would work with a Java virtual machine like JikesRVM, with
its own notion of object, garbage collection, etc.  For
example, JikesRVM almost certainly explicitly clears memory
before using it for objects, which would mean it is initialized,
and verified Java bytecode will never access an uninitialized
local variable.  I suppose you might get some mileage on
checking JNI / native code stuff, but I'm not sure.  So,
I am intrigued, but also wondering if maybe you're barking
up the wrong tree here ...

Regards -- Eliot (Hi, Sam!)